Automatic ear detection for online biometric applications

Proceedings - 2011 3rd National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics, NCVPRIPG 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 146-149

  Kumar, Amioy ^a   Hanmandlu, Madasu ^a   Kuldeep, Mohit ^a   Gupta, H M ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Biometric; Ear contour; Log gabor features; SIFT features

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; BIOMETRIC APPLICATIONS; BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION; EAR BIOMETRICS; EAR CONTOUR; GAUSSIAN CLASSIFIER; LAPLACIAN OF GAUSSIAN; LOG GABOR; ON-LINE APPLICATIONS; REGION BASED ACTIVE CONTOURS; SIFT FEATURE;

AUTHENTICATION; BIOMETRICS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84863129538     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NCVPRIPG.2011.69     Document Type: Conference Paper

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